Sooty rock
| Sooty rock | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 14 ′ S , 65 ° 8 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 20 m | |
The Sooty rock (of English sooty , grimy, blackened ' ) is a 20 m high cliff rock in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located between Lumus Rock and the Betbeder Islands .
Participants of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) discovered it and named it descriptively as Black Reef (English for Black Reef ). The crew of the HMS Endurance sighted him in February 1969. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee made an adaptation of the naming in 1971 to reflect the actual nature of the geographical object and thereby confuse it with, for example, Black Rock in the South Atlantic and Black Rock in the Heard and McDonald Islands archipelago .
Web links
- Sooty rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sooty Rock on geographic.org (English)